And there's a contest coming up with that idea next month on 3D Comic Collective.

I'm not sure if this will answer your question well or not. But if you save a selection, I believe it creates an alpha channel. I'm not at home just now, so I can't go into Photoshop and look, but if you go into the Channels palete (sp?). It will show you the alpha channel there. You may be able to just go to Channels and create one from the palete, but I can't remember.

As for the render to new window comment, I use it all the time. I usually set my document window to the right aspect ratio, but much smaller than I want my final render. That way I can fit everything on the screen at once and see all the tools. When I do go to render, I render to another window with the size I want it to be.

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I'm not sure what you can do either, although I'm not sure if it really make much of a difference. My Runtime folder is around 1.5 GB, and growing all the time. It hasn't been a problem (other than overall disk space).

Please forgive my ignorance, but is this month's challenge the chess one? tubaman@mac.com The Monthly Challenges link to the side doesn't seem to have been updated for a while.

I agree, it would be nice.

I'm not sure if I follow you or not. It sounds like you're trying to save a fully dressed figure to your library, and when you bring him back from the library he only has socks on, but the thumbnail in the library shows him fully clothed. If this is the case, it sounds like the rest of the clothes are not part of the group you're saving. I believe they do need to be conformed or parented to the figure to be part of the group so they'll save in the library. The thumbnail usually looks like the screen when you add your figure to the library, whether everything there is part of that figure or not.

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More detail about your problem would help. When it doesn't work, how doesn't it? Does it not map correctly? Or does it not even load? Or something else? If the map won't load, make sure you have saved it from Photoshop to a format supported by Poser.

Perhaps you should try moving a number of your children and see if you can then access the ones beyond "P" If that works, slowly add them back in until you find the limit (assuming that is the problem). Then you can decided how to combine some of your children, when you know how many you have to limit it to.

It doesn't really seem all the necessary to me. Most things I see here relate to 3-D in general, or program specific. There seems to be very little difference in platforms from what I can tell. As a Mac user, I'm wondering what reason would there be for a Mac Forum on this site.

I'm new the the Challenge Arena, but I hope to start participating. I have Poser and Mike, but no Vicki yet.